Teacher
Jorge Manuel Paixão Da Costa

Resume

Jorge Paixão da Costa (b. Lisbon, 13 October 1954), screenwriter, film and television director. Professor at University Lusófona of Humanities and Technologies since 1997. Graduated (BA) in Cinematography (History, Theory and Sociology of Cinema) Stockholm´s University 1982. Master of Fine Arts in Communication and Cultural Professions at University Nova de Lisboa in 2002. Direct feature films like Adeus Princesa, Public´s Prize at Belfort film festival (1994) and The Mystery of Sintra, Moscow film festival gold award (2007) Jacinta (2017) Soldado Milhões (2018). Signed several screenplays and direct, short films, documentaries and more than twenty television productions, including soap operas, sitcoms, series and television films.

Graus

• Mestrado
  Ciências da Comunicação
• Doutoramento
  Ciências da Comunicação

Publicações

Journal article

• 2019-05, Portuguese Soap Operas: A Genre at the Crossroads, International Journal of Film and Media Arts
• 2018-06-09, Portuguese Soap Operas: A case study on the emergence of an original production culture